PEDANTIC

Meaning of PEDANTIC in English

[adjective] [disapproving]They were being unnecessarily pedantic (= giving too much attention to formal rules or small details) by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement.

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

PEDANTIC — adjective Date: circa 1600 of, relating to, or being a pedant, narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, unimaginative, pedestrian , …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PEDANTIC — pə̇ˈdantik, -daan-, -tēk adjective Etymology: pedant + -ic : marked by pedantry: as a. : ostentatiously learned the pedantic style, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — (a.) Alt. of Pedantical
Английский словарь Webster
PEDANTIC — ( a. ) Alt. of Pedantical
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — — pedantically , adv. — pedanticalness , n. /peuh dan"tik/ , adj. 1. ostentatious in one's learning. 2. overly concerned …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — adj. meticulous; strict, fussy; adhering strictly to information in books without using common sense
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PEDANTIC — adjective Date: circa 1600 1. : of, relating to, or being a pedant 2. : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj ·alt. of pedantical.
Webster English vocab
PEDANTIC — [ pɪ'dantɪk ] ■ adjective of or like a pedant. Derivatives ~ally adverb
Concise Oxford English vocab
PEDANTIC — [pe.dan.tic] adj (ca. 1600) 1: of, relating to, or being a pedant 2: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned 3: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PEDANTIC — pedantic BrE AmE pɪ ˈdænt ɪk pə-, pe- AmE \ -ˈdæn t̬ ɪk ▷ pedantic|ally ə l‿i
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — / pɪˈdæntɪk; NAmE / adjective ( disapproving ) too worried about small details or rules ► pe·dan·tic·al·ly / -kli; NAmE …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — pe ‧ dan ‧ tic /pɪˈdæntɪk/ BrE AmE adjective paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PEDANTIC — If you think someone is pedantic , you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — If you think someone is ~, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PEDANTIC — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Don't be so pedantic - does it really matter if I don't pronounce it …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj. Function: adjective too narrowly concerned with scholarly matters FF1C; intellectual life that was pedantic rather than broad and humane …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PEDANTIC — a. ; ( also ~al ) Conceited, pragmatical, vain of knowledge, ostentatious of learning, over-learned, pedagogic, pedagogical, priggish, pompous, stilted.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
PEDANTIC — adjective too narrowly concerned with scholarly matters intellectual life that was pedantic rather than broad and humane Synonyms: academic, bookish, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — See ↑ DETAIL 8
Longman Activator English vocab
PEDANTIC — adj. 25B6; adjective OVER-SCRUPULOUS, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj. 1 didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, pedagogic, pedantical, preachy, professorial, bookish, ostentatious, pretentious, sententious, pompous, vain, stuffy, stilted, stiff, dry A …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn : fault-finding a педантичный pedantic педантичный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — Педантичный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — pedantic.ogg pıʹdæntık,-pıʹdæntık(ə)l a педантичный
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PEDANTIC — педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PEDANTIC — (a) педантичный
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn : fault-finding a педантичный pedantic педантичный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — adj. Pronunciation: pi- ' dan-tik Function: adjective Date: circa 1600 1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant 2 …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — adj. педантичный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PEDANTIC — adj. педантичный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PEDANTIC — _a. педантичный _Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
PEDANTIC — a. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
PEDANTIC — _a. педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
PEDANTIC — [adj.] педантичный
Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь - Королев
PEDANTIC — педантичный
English-Russian Online Dictionary
PEDANTIC — педантичный
English-Russian vocab
PEDANTIC — педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь

Cambridge English vocab

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